Back in the ’90s and early 2000s Friends dominated television.
Running for ten seasons, fans just couldn’t seem to get enough of the group, tuning in for every laugh, tear, and love confession in the sitcom’s run.
Going into Season 8, the show was going strong.
Monica (Courteney Cox) and Chandler (Matthew Perry) had just gotten married in the Season 7 finale, Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) was secretly pregnant – Season 8 couldn’t come fast enough.
But prior to the season premiere, 9/11 happened, changing the world as we know it.
People turned to film and television programs (such as Friends) as an escape from the horrors of the outside world.
But given that no one could have anticipated such a tragedy, many shows and movies required rewrites.
No mention of terrorism was to be had, and anything similar to the news coverage at the time was to be cut.
Friends was no stranger to these rewrites,…
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